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Rhiannon12866

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Tue Jul 29, 2025, 01:37 AM Yesterday

Trump skims nuclear safety funds to spruce up vanity gift plane from Qatar: Report - Rachel Maddow - MSNBC



Rachel Maddow shares New York Times reporting that Donald Trump has taken nearly a billion dollars from taxpayer money meant for modernizing the U.S. nuclear arsenal, and is instead directing some of those funds to refurbish the Air Force One style plane gifted to him from Qatar, which he intends to keep in his presidential library after potentially using it as his presidential plane once it is brought up to spec. - Aired on 07/28/2025.
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Trump skims nuclear safety funds to spruce up vanity gift plane from Qatar: Report - Rachel Maddow - MSNBC (Original Post) Rhiannon12866 Yesterday OP
Another illegal (un-constitutional) act... Justice matters. Yesterday #1
It's a bird. It's a plane. It's a flying white elephant. Marcuse Yesterday #2
Yikes! Great find! And you're right! Why else would Qatar want to get rid of it?! Rhiannon12866 Yesterday #3
NUCLEAR SAFETY FUNDS?! How the fuck is this not an immediate cause for removal?! Karasu Yesterday #4
I don't get it, either! And how is this not breaking news?? Rhiannon12866 Yesterday #5

Justice matters.

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1. Another illegal (un-constitutional) act...
Tue Jul 29, 2025, 01:43 AM
Yesterday

Congress Shmugress (the repukes) will keep ignoring that too.

Rhiannon12866

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3. Yikes! Great find! And you're right! Why else would Qatar want to get rid of it?!
Tue Jul 29, 2025, 02:16 AM
Yesterday

Meanwhile, American lives across several states could be jeopardized by leaking nukes...

Rhiannon12866

(239,699 posts)
5. I don't get it, either! And how is this not breaking news??
Tue Jul 29, 2025, 05:18 AM
Yesterday

One more conclusive sign that he could give a %$&! about the American people as long as he gets what he wants!

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